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Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was thrown into chaos yesterday afternoon following the killing of the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Modu Fanami Gubio, the younger brother of Gov Ali Modu Sheriff and five others by unknown gunmen.

Saturday Sun gathered that Gubio, who was on his way to his father’s house around Shehuri North area, was gunned down by unknown killers when attempting to dole out money to some of his ers. Sources said the gunmen might have trailed him from the mosque where he had left for his father’s house.

“The men numbering about four came on motorcycles and opened fire on the man when he was attending to some young men who had hailed him when he arrived the area. Everybody there had to run for safety and by the time we came back, we saw the man bleeding profusely,” an eyewitness told the reporter.

Three other persons including the former chairman of Ngala Local Government Area and younger brother of Gov Sheriff, Goni Modu Sheriff, two security agent of the CIB attached to the ANPP gubernatorial candidate were also shot by the gun men while a kolanut seller and an orange seller also met their untimely death in the afternoon shooting.

While the shooting and killing of seven lasted, residents in the area scampered for safety as people closed shops, businesses and ran home. Tension permeated the whole city and by 5.30pm, the busy streets had been deserted. Soldiers and riot policemen took over the city while detectives were reportedly deployed to the area.
Shocked by the sad development, Gov Ali Sheriff quickly summoned the security chiefs in the state to the Government House.

However, one man who incidentally has been consistent on how best to solve the recurring problem of insecurity in the state is Dr. Haruna Yerima. Yerima, a doctor of political scientist, is one of the initiators of the ‘2007 Movement,’ a group of federal lawmakers that saw to the demise of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term agenda.

Few months ago, he had called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Borno State, because, according to him, it was the only way peace and security could return to the state which has been under siege by Boko Haram militants in the last five months.
Yesterday, he called Saturday Sun again to reiterate his earlier stance, insisting that his call was consistent with the earlier warning by the militant Islamic group that they would only stop the killings if Governor Ali Modu Sheriff was out of office.

The Islamic militants last year said it would not stop the killings in the state, so long as the governor, Sheriff, remains in power.
The former federal lawmaker, who wants to return to the House on the platform of the C, argued that if the state of emergency was declared, the new helmsman would engage the militants, with the hope that peace would return in Borno State.

Yerima noted that he was not speaking as a politician, but as a Borno indigene, desirous for the return of peace in the state, challenging every politician to be ready to make sacrifices by allowing for the election in the state to be shifted by two months or more, in the event that his call was heeded.
Decrying the state of insecurity in Borno, the former university teacher said that free and fair election would not be possible in “an atmosphere of fear and intimidation because right now, campaign is almost impossible in the state because it is in partial curfew.

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